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BURNS SHOULD fIGHT JOHNSON Corbett Says Australian Public Forced Him to Make Match BY B JAMES J CORBETT Chicago Out Oct 3 If the tho Australian promoter are really sincere in their 01 of 01 ofer ter fer er of a 11 purse for fr r the Burrs go and If Mr MI Burns dots no get homesick before Mr Ir un reaches the tle antipodes there may mu Lc toe a it i sCrap for or the worlds heavyweight championship on Australian soil Two forces have been brought in i bear upon Burns Bums which have caused cau ell him him finally to give his consent to tie up in an argument with the pestiferous black man In the first place th the public pas has tired of Burns tactics and refuses to listen any longer to his talk about being a worlds champion Thomas got away with the bluff In England until he heard that Black BlackJack BlackJack Jack was on his track Then Th n he pulled his stakes and started for the other side of the world Much to his sur surprise surprise surprise prise when he arrived there he found foun that there was no such a thing thinS as color line and that Mr Johnson had left some impression In the minds of at the wise Australian public Burns however Is blessed with his hi share of ot brass and he billed himself as the only real He lie handed out the breeze that he was Johnsons superior and then supplied the newspapers with a line of argument argument ment meat that look good In print to Forget Color Line One of Tommys claims was that io no club dub had offered a larg large enough purse to warrant him climbing Into the ring with the dusky giant from Uncle Sams domain dom ln The Australian promoters rs im immediately Immediately Immediately mediately inquired anent Burns ideas about a purse and were enlightened by b being informed that for his hi end nd was the least possible amount amunt that thai would make him forget about the tile color line After watching Thomas perform in one or two of his ship battles the wise wll ones decided that Johnson was his equal and that the two would furnish the world with ith the tile greatest scrap of o modern ring times tinip s The Australians tire sire a determined lot hat and then they th y also know kno something about the business end of oC the scrap game It take them long Jong to fig figure figure figure ure out what a fight between en Johnson and Burns would draw in addition t the betting which they also know something about On Or the other hand Burns Bums had se sef sen n enough of Australia to know that the days of Bob Fitzsimmons Joe JoC Jo Goddard and Young Griffo the country had developed a whole lot lotTo lotTo lotTo To return to America would haw hav been suicidal to him unless he lie really in intended intended tended to fight Johnson The American public would stand for hi hl color line gag no longer and it would be a ca caie e of put up or shut up Ketchel Burns Burn only possible chance for easy money mon had been put out of the running bv by Billy and the latter was satis satisfied satisfied fied fled to remain just a middleweight champion Had Ketchel won over Burns would have been given one more opportunity to sidestep Jack He could have signed articles and at atlea least leat lea t a whole year would have passed in which time Johnson would hap have grown no better and probably dropped out of sight sigh but Iut now the fight is on and it really looks as if it were going to take place placeIt It Is too far away awa for me to see it it and ant andI antI I will be the thousands who will be disappointed at not being pres present present present ent to witness ss the affair Burns probably enjoys the situation In American he has been knocked for not taking on Johnson and in Eng England En England land lan another place where the thc color olor line is not distinct Burns has been branded as aR a coward Coward Talk Stings Burns BurnsT Tommy T however was so o far ava away that he paid little attention to wha whal was being b said in England until th Australian papers began taking up u the till coward talk and handing it afresh t ts Burns Bums Tom finally has tired of it all alland alland alland and now he asserts that he lie will stake his all on the final encounter with willi Johnson and then retire if he loses as ashe ashe ashe he will then have hae enough of the world worldly ly 1 goods to live hive the rest of his time tinn tinnon on earth without worrying much